Understanding and Helping Traumatized Infants And Families

Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 254-263

  Osofsky, Joy D ^a   Osofsky, Howard J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse and neglect problems; Brazelton's model, recognizing power of infancy and prevention role; Child and family mental health needs crucial component of child serving systems; Clingy behavior and worries about separation worrying that about what might happen; High prevalence of mental health problems among children, major focus of concern; Intervention and services, by addressing parent child relationship; Trauma in young children developmental phase, influenced by child's limited perceptual, cognitive and linguistic abilities; Trauma symptoms in young children; Trauma, intervention and recovery; Understanding and helping traumatized infants and families

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951527587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324617.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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